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This article reviews key scholarship in the field of environmental policy. It does so by connecting two broad interdisciplinary threads. First, it addresses the subject of issue framing, which focuses on the formation of public attitudes and the way in which issues are packaged and presented for mass consumption. Second, it considers agenda setting, which centers on political elites and the decisions that are made—or deferred—within the policy-making process. Finally, it draws on both to suggest productive avenues for future research.

This article reviews key scholarship in the field of environmental policy. It does so by connecting two broad interdisciplinary threads. First, it addresses the subject of issue framing, which focuses on the formation of public attitudes and the way in which issues are packaged and presented for mass consumption. Second, it considers agenda setting, which centers on political elites and the decisions that are made—or deferred—within the policy-making process. Finally, it draws on both to suggest productive avenues for future research.